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O God, make speed to save me.
O Lord, make haste to help me.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:
As it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Alleluia.

The Lord said unto my Lord: ‘Sit thou on my right hand,
until I make thine enemies thy footstool.’
The Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Sion:
be thou ruler, even in the midst among thine enemies.
In the day of thy power shall the people
offer thee free-will offerings with holy worship:
the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.
The Lord sware and will not repent:
‘Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech.’
The Lord upon thy right hand
shall wound even kings in the day of His wrath.
He shall judge among the heathen:
He shall fill the places with dead bodies:
and smite in sunder the heads of many countries.
He shall drink of the brook in the way:
therefore shall He lift up His head.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.

Thou art fair, my love, beautiful, comely, daughter of Jerusalem.
Thou art fair, my love, beautiful and comely as Jerusalem,
terrible as an army set in array.
Turn thine eyes from me, for they have made me flee away.

Praise the Lord, ye servants: O praise the name of the Lord.
Blessed be the name of the Lord:
from this time forth for evermore.
The Lord’s name is praised: from the rising
up of the sun unto the going down of the same.
The Lord is high above all heathen
and His glory above the heavens.
Who is like unto the Lord our God,
that has His dwelling so high: and yet humbles
himself to behold the things in heaven and earth?
He takes up the simple out of the dust:
and lifts the poor out of the mire:
That He may set him with princes,
even with the princes of His people.
He makes the barren woman to keep house,
and to be a joyful mother of children.

Glory to be the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.

I was glad when they said unto me:
‘We will go into the house of the Lord.’
Our feet shall stand in thy gates, O Jerusalem,
Jerusalem is built as a city:
that is at unity in itself.
For thither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord:
to testify to Israel, to give thanks to the Lord’s name.
For there is the seat of judgement:
even the seat of the house of David.
O pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
they shall prosper that love thee.
Peace be within thy walls:
and plenteousness within thy palaces.
For my brethren and companions’ sakes,
I will wish thee prosperity.
Because of the house of the Lord our God
I will seek to do thee good.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem:
Therefore the King loved me and brought me into his chambers,
and he said to me: Arise up my love and come away,
for lo, the winter is past, the rains are over and gone,
and the flowers appear in our land. The time of pruning is nigh.

Except the Lord build the house,
their labour is but vain that build it.
Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman wakes in vain.
It is lost labour that ye haste to rise up early:
and so take rest late, and eat the bread of carefulness,
for so he gives his beloved sleep.
Lo, children and fruit of the womb
are a heritage and gift that come of the Lord.
Like arrows in the hand of a giant, so are the young children.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them:
he shall not be ashamed when he speaks
with his enemies in the gate.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.

Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion.
For He hath made fast the bars of thy gates:
hath blessed thy children within thee. He makes peace
in thy borders: and fills thee with the flour of wheat.
He sends forth His commandment upon earth
and His word runs swiftly. He gives snow like wool:
and scatters the hoar-frost like ashes.
He casts forth his ice like morsels:
who is able to abide His frost?
He sends out His word, and melts them:
His breath blows, and the waters flow.
He shows his word unto Jacob: His statutes and laws unto Israel.
He has not dealt so with any nation:
neither have the heathen knowledge of His laws.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.

The two Seraphim cried one to another:
‘Holy is the Lord God of Sabaoth.
The whole earth is full of His glory:
there are three that bear record in heaven:
the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.
Holy is the Lord God of Sabaoth:
the whole earth is full of His glory.

This day the blessed Barbara, the glorious virgin,
rejected the orders of her father and the world’s empty promises;
giving up this corruptible life for the love of Christ,
she ascended to heaven to share for evermore in the
kingdom of Christ in the life incorruptible. Alleluia.

My soul doth magnify the Lord.
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
For He hath regarded the lowliness of His handmaiden:
for behold from henceforth
all generations shall call me blessed.
For He that is mighty hath magnified me:
holy is His name. And His mercy is on them that fear Him
throughout all generations.
He hath showed strength with His arm:
He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He hath put down the mighty from their seat:
and hath exalted the humble.
He hath filled the hungry with good things:
and the rich He hath sent empty away.
He remembering His mercy hath holpen His servant Israel.
As He promised to our forefathers,
Abraham and his seed for ever.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.

The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit. Let us pray.
O God, whose love the blessed Barbara
put before all earthly affection;
grant, we pray, that as we recall today
her triumphant martyrdom, we may also be able,
as her heirs, to come to the Kingdom of heaven at last.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ
your Son, who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Ghost,
one God for ever and ever. Amen.
The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit.
Let us bless the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Blessed be the name of the Lord
from this time forth and for evermore.
Our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
May Almighty God bless you,
the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.
May the souls of the faithful departed,
through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.

Heaven hear my words
full of desire and suffused with joy … (I hear)
Tell me: who is she who rises bright
as the dawn, that I may bless her? … (I will say)
Say, for she is beautiful, chosen as the moon,
like the sun fills the earth,
the heavens and the seas with joy … (Mary)
The sweet Virgin Mary, foretold by the prophet
Ezechiel, the portal of the East? … (such is she)
This holy and happy portal through which death
was driven out and life brought to us? … (thus it is)
who is ever the perfect and sure link
between God and man, remedy for sin? … (She is that link)
Let us all therefore follow her by whose grace
we may deserve eternal life … (let us follow)
God the Father grant us this, and the Son
and the Mother on whose name we call
as sweet solace to the sorrowful … (Amen).
Blessed are you, O Virgin Mary, world without end.

The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary.
And she conceived by the Holy Ghost. Let us pray.
Almighty and everlasting God, who made ready,
by the power of the Holy Ghost, the body and soul
of Mary, the glorious and ever-virgin Mother,
that she might be worthy to become
a dwelling place fit for your Son;
grant that as we rejoice in this her commemoration,
we may by her kind intercession be made
free from all the evils which surround us,
and from everlasting death. and that
thy servants be guarded from all adversity.
Through the one Christ our Lord. Amen.